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How to avoid MOP silliness?
JRRNeiklot
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Okay, so the banana/poop flinging/dancing monkey crap annoys the hell out of me. I haven't played WOW since Xmas, thinking of coming back because I'm bored. Is there any way to avoid at least a good portion of the silly shit in MOP? A list of silly zones and instances/quests to avoid would be a good start. Or am I wishing for too much?
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How did you avoid it before? There isn't really much more here than in previous expansions. I remember rummaging through some animals crap back in TBC, and Haris Pilton in Shat. I haven't played through the zones in a while, so I don't really remember which ones had the most "silly" stuff. I don't remember there being much of it, other than maybe the damn rabbits, I thought those were pretty annoying, but I don't remember the zone.
Blizzard turned an April Fools Day Joke into an expansion. MOP along with its creator Blizzard is the lost cause. trust me it isn't you.
you arent being specific what is silly in MoP. I recently bought a 3 month trying to level my lower level toons into MoP but ended up playing my lvl 85 in MoP instead. I like the content ive seen so far in MoP. Too many monkeys in the first area but i already gained their reputation so they a friendly and i can move on.
Also if you think MoP is silly, why try to come back? Just buy a month and try to get past what you dont like grinding dungeons. And if you just hate the entire MoP then save your cash for something you would enjoy.
I personally dont grind dungeon to skip content in WoW because i only play WoW for the lore so i dont like skipping pieces of lore in WoW
If you're looking for a slightly less silly, yet super fun MMO, I'd suggest going to Guild Wars 2 instead of WoW. Best feature: No Pandas. The only "silly shit" that the game has had was the Super Adventure Box that ran through April and has ended. Otherwise the game mostly takes itself serious in story progression, the war-like WvWvW, and sPvP.
You are wishing too much. From what I'd read, the silliness of WoW is only going to get worse before it ever gets better.
P.S. WoW has a subscription. So, you're risking $$ just to "try to see" if it's lost it's silliness. Compared to a non-subscription B2P game like GW2 where the box is your only entrance fee for a very, very long time.
P.P.S. I played WoW through Cataclysm, ...it's just couldn't stand the early 2000's graphics combined with the oncoming joke that was Pandas. Also, the Worgen race's starting area wasn't that fleshed out and become a complete waste of space after the very short period within it (never did the Goblin, was always Alliance).
It drives me batty how people bash on the pandas. At what point are people finally going to realize:
1.) Pandaren are a staple race that made their appearance back in Warcraft III.
2.) They are in no way based on Kung-Fu Panda, as they pre-date it by almost a decade.
3.) They're no worse than the giant talking cows we have in the Horde or the blue space goats on the Alliance side.
JUST DO SOMETHING ELSE. SUCH A WOWISH QUESTION. O.M.G.
Let's see, poop flinging/banana hurling dancing monkeys, beer elementals, giant spinning rabbits that vomit on you, etc.
Tried GW2. Got bored with the constant zergfests. Thanks, though.
1.) Pandaren was an April Fool's joke, never meant to be a real race.
2.) Just because Blizzard's April Fool's joke predates the movie doesn't precluide them jumping on the Kung Fu Panda bandwagon.
3.) It's not the panda themselves that bother me - I never even mentioned the pandas in my op.
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Your sillyness or crap is something that someone else probably enjoys, so asking for advice on the best zones to avoid etc is pointless as not everyone will have the same opinion as you and to be completely blunt, if you didn't like it the first time around what would be so different now?
It is like the people that come back at each expansion and expect to find a completely new game and are shocked when they find it is basically the same game with some slightly different content....well DUH!
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After maybe half of the first zone, the MoP "silliness" dies down quite a bit and goes full badass.
But personally, I never really found any of it all that silly. It was just fun. I'd say, if you want to avoid it, then you don't really want to play and are forcing it, so you might as well quit.
i seriously don't get it.
you played that
for ages but complain about that:
okai
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I'm so sick of hearing about this April fool's stuff. The race was created by an Artist and yes, was announced as part of an April fool's joke. The response from the players was so overwhelming, the race was added to the game. So... The players wanted the race to become part of the game and it did. You do know that all of the races in Warcraft are fake correct? All of the races have some joke elements as part of who they are. Where the race originated shouldn't really come into play.
If you want to play wow and have limited exposure to the Pandaren and the content, just don't play the new area. Honestly, I'm not currently playing, but I have played through a lot of the MoP content and I didn't find it any more silly then WoW already is. Perhaps WoW just isn't for you. I'm currently playing TOR and having a blast, though, I'll always have a place in my heart for WoW.
Why are you coming back to WoW in the first place? There's quite a bit of silliness in the game no matter what. I avoided A LOT of questing on my second character and basically dungeon and battleground grind to 90. You will pay for it in the long run when you need to do a quest chain to unlock dailies, unless you don't plan to do them.
This. You start to see the real blood lust and horror of war after you completely beat the first zone. It basically just teaches you the ways of Pandaria in the first zone, and the troubles they had before you even came there. Then it introduces things that are borderline war crimes and quite a bit of bloodshed and tragedy.
It's probably the only expansion that has really put the "war" into warcraft between the two factions. Though it's nothing something you'll really see in whole until you completely beat each area and take on the new content the patches brought. The entire expansion pretty much just focuses on this War between the Alliance and Horde and how it splits a continent and culture asunder in their lust for bloodshed. Even one of the faction leaders is the end boss of the expansion, to end the war and the madness.
Is it me or has nobody answered the op's question?
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But it was a race in the Warcraft universe before that april fools joke that's what people aren't getting.
it was a single, merc hero added to a tavern as a patch to WCIII. It was a minor, tiny piece of lore, if that. A dev admitted it was a joke, thunk up over some drinks at a bar. some of us are far too familiar how this silly little merc hero turned into a full-on expac to wow.